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...have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty. Our birds are rather more retiring than English birds and usually sing only in the morning, while English birds of necessity haunt open fields and moreover sing all the day long...
...done by way of warning is to indicate certain large improbabilities, leaving them to be confirmed or thwarted by time and human ingenuity." In regard to the impossibility of securing a stable body of teachers there seems to be no such doubt in Professor Palmer's mind, or rather the doubt seems to amount to a certainity. In England there is a surplus of unemployed scholars who can undertake the work, while here we must depend on college instructors, whose time is already largely filled. "This feature of the American system, * * * if persisted in, must ultimately destroy the extension scheme...
...having athletics a trial of skill and merit unattended by needless risk, that Harvard made her propositions; and it is gratifying to perceive the predominance of this spirit in the other colleges as shown by the way in which they joined with Harvard in the reform. We are rather at a loss to understand Yale's stand in regard to the tug-of-war, especially as she voted for its abolition last year, and as the sentiment of the college, judging from editorial expression in the Yale News not three weeks ago was until recently in favor of abolishing...
...candidates for the 'varsity nine began out-of-door practice yesterday afternoon. Although it was rather cold for serious work the men went out on Jarvis field and began light practice. While a part of the candidates caught flies at one end of the field, others were trained in batting at the other. If the weather does not grow any more severe, the nine will continue its work out-of-doors...
...Harvard men, however, as we have said before, the chief interest of the number is bound to centre in the article by William Dana Orcutt ('92). It is a readable and rather interesting review of the situation in society life at Harvard, containing a slight description of almost all the college societies from the Institute of 1770 to the Deutscher Verein. The illustrations are plentiful and on the whole very good. They comprise the seals and emblems of some of the societies, and groups and individual pictures of the actors in the '89, '91 and '92 Hasty Pudding theatricals...